Faculty/Author Profile

Susan Davis

Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP

New York, NY, USA

Susan Davis specializes in the representation of national and local labor unions in all aspects of collective bargaining, mergers and affiliations, organizing, strategic planning and internal union governance. Before joining the firm in 1982, Ms. Davis clerked for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. A 1976 graduate with honors of the University of California at Berkeley, Ms. Davis received her law degree with high honors from Rutgers University, where she won the West Publishing Company's annual jurisprudence award and led the Rutgers moot court team to the American Bar Association's national moot court finals. Ms. Davis is a member of the Committee on Practice and Procedure under the National Labor Relations Act of the American Bar Association's Section on Labor and Employment Law, the union co-chair of the NY/NJ/CT Regional Practice and Procedure Committee, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association and an Advisory Board Member of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Ms. Davis is a member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and also serves on the AFL-CIO Lawyers Advisory Panel. She has written and lectured extensively before bar association, attorney and union meetings on a variety of issues facing unions and their members.